'nonpartisan' Cbo's Health Division Overwhelmingly Staffed By Dems, Gop-aligned Group Says

EXCLUSIVE: A section of nan Congressional Budget Office, nan agency charged pinch providing fund and economical accusation to lawmakers, is stacked pinch wide Democrats, putting into mobility its long-standing estimation of being nonpartisan. 

The American Accountability Foundation, a blimpish authorities investigation nonprofit, recovered that overmuch of nan CBO's Health Analysis Division is made up of Democrats aliases Democratic donors.

Of nan 32 unit members successful nan division, 26 of them, aliases 84%, person "clearly" verified wide partisan biases, being either a Democrat donor, a registered Democrat, aliases a Democratic superior voter, nan group said successful a memo outlining its findings, which travel up of imaginable scrutiny of President Donald Trump's fund request. 

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Copies of President Barack Obama's projected national fund scheme for fiscal twelvemonth 2014 is prepared for transportation astatine nan U.S. Government Printing Office. (AP)

"The CBO likes to telephone itself ‘nonpartisan’ successful an effort to disguise its domiciled arsenic an undercover leftist deliberation tank," AAF President Tom Jones said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "In fact, nan CBO is institutionally progressive, pinch 84% of its master healthcare unit members being registered Democrats. These aforesaid unit members, who are connected grounds donating to radicals for illustration Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton, ‘score’ authorities and coming it to nan American group for illustration it’s sacrosanct."

Jones accused nan CBO staffers of not conscionable voting left, but utilizing their power to beforehand progressive argumentation changes. 

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"The Health Analysis Division has been overtaken by wide group think," nan memo states. "As policymakers see pronouncements and scores from CBO complete nan coming weeks, they should respect those from nan Health Care Analysis Division pinch heavy suspicion and should apt disregard them arsenic nan merchandise of a politically biased argumentation shop, overmuch arsenic they would study from an institution for illustration nan Center for American Progress."

The HAD is tasked pinch analyzing national programs and policies that see Medicare, Medicaid and subsidies provided done wellness security exchanges. Its staffers nutrient reports connected argumentation issues and play a cardinal domiciled successful definite estimates of projected changes successful wellness attraction programs, nan CBO website states.

The study noted that nan CBO useful to "cultivate" a estimation arsenic a "non-partisan scorekeeper, conscionable balls and strikes." That estimation is truthful entrenched, nan AAF said, that 1,358 different news media stories successful nan past twelvemonth unsocial person appended nan connection "nonpartisan" to nan opening of nan office’s name, reporting connected nan "nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office."

Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel speaks during a news briefing connected nan merchandise of caller economical reports astatine Ford House Office Building Feb. 15, 2023, successful Washington, D.C.  (Getty Images)

"While nan CBO has spun a communicative done nan mainstream media that it’s a neutral scorekeeper, it’s 1 large gaslighting run to distract from nan office’s fundamentally progressive roots." Jones said. "They cognize nan adjacent fewer months pinch reconciliation are important and will do everything they tin to slam and stall nan Trump administration’s policies."

CBO labor are barred from engaging successful governmental activity if it would "identify, aliases look to identify, CBO pinch a governmental campaign, candidate, officeholder, aliases cause," its website states. 

"The circumstantial positions taken are irrelevant; rather, nan imaginable harm to CBO’s estimation for objectivity comes from relation pinch governmental activity aliases nationalist advocacy," it adds. 

The agency doesn't prosecute employment candidates based connected their political affiliation, it said. 

Research conducted by nan group recovered that Health Analysis Director Chapin White is simply a Democratic donor, having fixed money to erstwhile Secretary of State John Kerry. White made a $300 aid to Kerry's grounded statesmanlike bid successful 2004, according to Federal Election Commission data. 

White referred Fox News Digital to nan CBO, which declined to comment.

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One expert has donated to respective Democratic elected officials, including erstwhile President Joe Biden and various members of Congress, according to nan FEC. Many others are registered Democrats aliases person donated to Democratic pollical candidates, nan deliberation vessel said. 

A Congressional Budget Office motion is successful Washington, D.C., June 26, 2017. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Much of nan information gathered by nan AAF was obtained done nationalist run finance reporting agencies aliases from elector registration offices, noting that galore CBO labor unrecorded successful Virginia, which doesn't person partisan registration, nan nonprofit said. 

Virginia besides restricts entree to voter history records via nan state’s Freedom of Information Act, making it challenging to ascertain whether voters formed ballots successful Democratic aliases Republican primaries, it said. 

However, nan AAF said it obtained Virginia voting history accusation from a trusted third-party source. 

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"There were 4 unit members for whom AAF was incapable to unafraid voting history aliases registration information," it said. "AAF powerfully suspects if nan staffers listed arsenic ‘Data connected Definitive Partisan Bias Unavailable’ were asked whether they ballot successful Democrat aliases Republican primaries (or if they had voted for Kamala Harris aliases Donald Trump) very few, if any, will respond that they are Republicans."